Cognos 8.3 Configuration change

Hi,

I have started looking into the cognos admin activities also lately. I got some requests from developers to change the cognos 8.3 server configuration. The change is about saving the report output to the local shared drive on a per report basis.

Here are the short list of steps we need to do for setting up archive location to save the report outputs.

Following are the things we need to to set up those changes.

1) Change the cognos server configuration --> Set the saving the report output to file system to true and provide an archive base location for saving the report outputs.

2) Change the configuration settings in the cognos connection to set up the file path

Thanks,

Soma

Cognos ReportNet Hot Tips

Here are some of the list of links which gives some hot tips for Cognos ReportNet developers.
Discontinuous Cross tab Reports in Report Net using Tabular Set
1) <http://support.cognos.com/supported/supportlink/15n1/hottip07.xml>
Creating the Printer button in the Report Viewer
2) <http://support.cognos.com/supported/supportlink/14n3/hottip02.xml>
3) Removing the default parameters from the drop down list
<http://support.cognos.com/supported/supportlink/15n4/hottip06.xml>
4) Creating Banded Reports in ReportNet
<http://support.cognos.com/supported/supportlink/14n3/techreview11.xml>
5) Repointing Cognos ReportNet Reports to Different Databases
<http://support.cognos.com/supported/supportlink/15n4/hottip01.xml>
Cheers !!!
Soma

Scheduling the reports in Cognos 8

Cognos 8 architecture differentiates the requests requested by Interative and Non Interactive processes. For Ex: when the user is running the report manually, Report Service will process the reauest received whereas the scheduled report request will be processed by the Batch report Service.

Using Jobs to Schedule Reports

We can use jobs to schedule one or more reports rather keeping the Individual schedule. Jobs can be submitted to run as follows: All at once or in Sequence.

Job and Scheduling Service Settings

All scheduling will be processed by the Job and Scheduling Service. This service is directly related to the Batch report Service which runs the scheduling requests.

Following are the parameters settings which we can set while configuring the Job and Scheduling Service.

Maximum Jobs During Non-Peak Period
The maximum number of jobs during non-peak periods identifies a configurable limit to the number of jobs that can simultaneously execute during the specified non-peak period range.
Maximum Jobs During Peak Period
The maximum number of jobs during peak periods identifies a configurable limit to the number of jobs that can simultaneously execute during the specified peak period range. If an application does not perform scheduled activity during the specified peak period range, this setting is inapplicable.

Cheers!

Soma